Political Quotes

“The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Utah (Mr. Hatch), the Senator from Utah (Mr. Lee), and the Senator from Illinois (Mr. Kirk). The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 92, nays 4, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 59 Leg.] YEAS--92 Akaka Alexander Ayotte Barrasso Baucus Bennet Bingaman Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown (MA) Brown (OH) Burr Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Chambliss Coats Coburn Cochran Collins Conrad Coons Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Durbin Enzi Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Graham Grassley Hagan Harkin Heller Hoeven Hutchison Inouye Isakson Johanns Johnson (SD) Johnson (WI) Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Kyl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lugar Manchin McCain McCaskill McConnell Menendez Merkley Mikulski Moran Murkowski Murray Nelson (FL) Paul Portman Pryor Reed Reid Risch Roberts Rockefeller Rubio Sanders Schumer Sessions Shaheen Shelby Snowe Stabenow Tester Thune Toomey Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Vitter Warner Webb Whitehouse Wicker Wyden NAYS--4 Begich Inhofe Landrieu Nelson (NE) NOT VOTING--4 Boxer Hatch Kirk Lee The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 92 and the nays are 4. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. vote Explanation <bullet> Mrs. BOXER. Madam President, I was absent from the vote to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.…”